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Lauren Kuehne

@omfishient.bsky.social

DEI, forever. Also bio/acoustics, freshwaters, invasive critters, technology + society, WA State stuff. Omfishient Consulting, mother, writer. "The revolution WILL put you in the driver's seat"--Gil Scott-Heron

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Cole Donovan@colesci.bsky.social · 6d ago

Volume matters. As @cdelawalla.bsky.social and I wrote, number of comments and outreach from constituents is absolutely important in maintaining Congressional and political attention. This would not be possible without YOUR efforts. Our action center is still live: fight2win.standupforscience.net

Top senators consider blocking Trump’s grant shakeup in spending stopgap

It’s now “up to leadership” whether to head off the controversial changes, Sen. Susan Collins said.

politico.com

Strider@reluctantranger.bsky.social · last mo.

400 masked cowardly Patriot Front bros walking through D.C. once, then fleeing ain’t shit, peeps. They are a tiny fetid drop in the American bucket. Remember Minneapolis at -20F. We are bigger, braver, and stronger. By a mile.

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Richard M. Nixon@dicknixon.bsky.social · last mo.

This an official Vatican photograph of Leo at Lampedusa, Italy - one of the world’s heaviest migrant sites - where he went this morning to pray for migrants who died at sea. This is after turning down the offer to come to the United States.

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Neugin@lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Unclench your jaw. Relax your brow. Go get a drink of water. See if you've taken your meds Eat something. Doesn't matter what you look like right now, i think you look amazing. Because you do. You're a wonderful person. And have this. 🫂🖤 you did great today. You made it through

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🧵 Public science in the US has taken some heavy hits over the last year, but the White House OMB is proposing a series of changes that will result in a TKO for science as we know it unless we fight back. Here's what's happening, and why it matters. 1/n

Prisonculture@prisonculture.bsky.social · 3mo ago

People have already memory-holed how critical #TeslaTakeDown was. It was the earliest decentralized set of protests in the second term as early as Feb 2025 at a time when most people were shell-shocked and Dem leadership was cowering and capitulating. And it pushed Elon out of the WH.

Dr Abeba Birhane@abeba.blacksky.app · 3mo ago

the ai industry unleashing genai into the public & expecting society (academics, policy makers & cso) to find solutions is like big oil polluting oceans & expecting individuals to clean it up 👇🏾 approaches are important but we need sustainable solution that tackles prob from th root: regulate big AI

Science Magazine@science.org · 3mo ago

Deepfakes are everywhere, but digital forensics investigators are fighting back. Learn more: https://scim.ag/42dMPBg

To verify images, digital forensics investigators will often check whether the geometry of the scene is realistic. In a real photo, lines that run parallel in reality—like floor tiles—should meet at a single vanishing point. In this image, however, the dotted lines do not meet in a single point, indicating it is a fake. Image: an AI-generated image of soldiers marching down a hallway in three lines, wearing fatigues and carrying rifles. Four dotted white lines have been added over the image, running along the floor tiles visible in the foreground and extending back to where the vanishing point should be, behind the soldiers. Instead of meeting in a single point, the lines all cross at different points.
Edward Chen@edwrdchen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The largest forest research organization in the world, the US Forest Service's R&D branch, may lose up to 74% of its sites under a planned reorganization. Researchers on the ground and former officials shared many thoughts with Nature's News team: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

World’s largest forest research agency faces severe cutback by Trump administration

The US Forest Service has proposed closing some three-quarters of its research sites in a move that has provoked widespread fear and uncertainty.

nature.com

Joshua Weitz@joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The Trump administration actively dismantling American leadership in science, a nihilistic legacy that will stretch for years as long as political ideology supplants evidence as the basis for policy making, oversight, and funding. 🎁 wapo.st/3P3DSY2

Trump ousts National Science Board members

Members of the independent board that guides the National Science Foundation said they received a notice from the White House that their position was being terminated.

wapo.st

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: NSF has been funding research at a fraction of its historic rate. Last week, the agency finally began distributing money to its directorates and is now likely to pick up the grantmaking pace. But these allocations also amount to substantial cuts across the sciences. My reporting:

Delays have kept new NSF grants to a trickle — that could be about to change

The agency is finally ready to distribute a spate of new grants, but it is also preparing substantial cuts to areas such as biological and social sciences.

nature.com

Kat Abughazaleh@katmabu.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil. It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

Senator Tim Kaine@kaine.senate.gov · 4mo ago

Thune should immediately call the Senate back into session. Trump’s unhinged threats to commit massive war crimes against Iranian civilian targets show an increasing mental and moral instability we can’t ignore.

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Senator Patty Murray@murray.senate.gov · 4mo ago

These are the rantings of a bloodthirsty lunatic. It is sick beyond measure to threaten to wipe out an entire civilization. This is not what the American people want. It is well past time for the Republican Congress to join Democrats and put an end to this war.

U.S. strikes Iran’s Kharg Island as Trump warns ‘a whole civilization will die tonight’

The president had issued a deadline of 8 p.m. Eastern time for Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz, pledging destruction by midnight if leaders don’t comply.

washingtonpost.com

Liz Neeley@lizneeley.bsky.social · 4mo ago

"At an internal all-hands meeting on Friday, NSF leaders announced that they would dissolve the agency’s Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences directorate based on the budget request, according to two NSF staff members who shared information anonymously in order to speak freely"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

BREAKING: In response to huge cuts in Trump's budget request, NSF is shuttering its SBE directorate. Staff will be transferred to other parts of the agency and "grants that align with Administration priorities" will be maintained. That & more w/ @maxkozlov.bsky.social & @edwrdchen.bsky.social